#bit marthur coded if i do say so myself

[ranna-alga]

Different country myth but might I also raise you;

Arthur and Mary are Lancelot and Guinevere from Arthurian legend/folklore.

Lancelot being King Arthur's most loyal knight but falls in love with the Queen Guinevere and the two have a forbidden/secret love affair, their loyalty and faith to the most important man in their lives (King Arthur, an allegory for both Dutch and Mary's father) being put to the test. Tragically, Guinevere and Lancelot's affair gets discovered and whilst Lancelot is forced to escape, unable to save Guinevere despite trying to, she is condemned to burn at stake. Lancelot attempts to rescue her by killing several of King Arthur's knights in the process. In the end, Guinevere survives,  but instead lives the rest of her life in a nunnery. As for Lancelot, he spends the rest of his days as a desolate hermit.

After "Mary and Arthur are Odysseus and Penelope" I raise you "Mary and Arthur are Odysseus and Calypso" and most importantly, Mary is Orpheus and Arthur is Eurydice. If you get it you get it.

And John/Abigail/Jack are also lowkey Odysseus/Penelope/Telemachus coded. Or rather Hector/Andromache/Astyanax, taking into account their tragedy.

And then Dutch is just Zeus. And yes I have been listening to Epic the musical and Hadestown.